"One of These Days"

It never takes too long for me to go back to Pink.

My introduction to "One of These Days," off the Meddle album, was during my junior year. My mum had gone away for the weekend and it was just me and my Dad. We were driving to go see a Caps game and he had the iPod plugged into the car and said, "Ah, here's something just the two of us can listen to." Then he turned up the bass and the volume.

Meddle (1971) - Anyone know what it actually is? I've always thought a dragon...*

The bass line comes up and sticks with you - pretty hard not to since it's double-tracked. The song slowly adds instruments and builds to this echoing bass line part...and then the kick drum gets banged a few times. It's Mason's cue to say his one and only line - the only one in the whole song: "One of these days, I'm gonna to tear you up into little pieces." It's an eerie, large voice created apparently by a high pitched voice and a slowed down tape.

It's rumored the threat is a response to a music reviewer's poor review of one of their previous albums. Or it's a reference to the clips that they used to play at concerts in the 1970's of BBC's Sir Jimmy Young - apparently the boys didn't like his tendency to babble on.

However you cut it, "One of These Days" is one of my favourite Pink Floyd songs. Partly because of its ability to be a really mesmerizing instrumental song and partly because, as a drummer myself, I love that Nick Mason got to be vocalist.

*FUN FACT (11/5/12): The shot is actually a close-up of an ear underwater, not a dragon as I have previously surmised. I'm curious as to what others have thought it was...